Charles Hayward – Page 5

May 1, 2011

performance diary 05-01-11 (Los Angeles)

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
July 21, 2011	ResBox Steve Allen Theater The Center for Inquiry 4773 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027	8:00pm	Performances by Ted Byrnes (percussion) and Han-earl Park (guitar) plus others TBC. Details to follow… Tickets: $10 from the Steve Allen Theater or at the door.

June 2011	California	Han-earl Park will be based in Los Angeles, California from June to December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch!
December 2011	New York	Han-earl Park will be based in New York from December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch!
late-2011/early-2012	Europe	Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) is seeking performance opportunities in Europe in late-2011 or early-2012. In addition, Han-earl Park (guitar) is available for formal or ad-hoc performances. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch!

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April 28, 2011

RTÉ: Arena: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Han-earl Park, Charles Hayward and Ian Smith (photos copyright 2011 Julia Healy) — Photos © 2011 Julia Healy

An exclusive audio clip of Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet) with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) was broadcast on Arena, RTÉ Radio 1, 30 March 2011. You can catch the two minute twenty-seven second improvisation recorded by Alex Fiennes during the soundcheck prior the performance at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland) via Arena’s listen again feature (it appears at around the 39–40 minute mark). [Listen again…]

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House.

April 20, 2011

performance diary 04-20-11 (California, New York, Europe)

upcoming performances
date	venue	details
June 2011	California	Han-earl Park will be based in Los Angeles, California from June to December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch!
December 2011	New York	Han-earl Park will be based in New York from December 2011, and is seeking formal or ad-hoc playing opportunities. Interested musicians, promoters, venues, please get in touch!
late-2011/early-2012	Europe	Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) is seeking performance opportunities in Europe in late-2011 or early-2012. In addition, Han-earl Park (guitar) is available for formal or ad-hoc performances. Interested promoters, venues and sponsors, please get in touch!

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April 17, 2011

RTÉ: Nova: improvisation, ankhrasmation, Mathilde 253 and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, transformation, ankhrasmation, teaching improvisation, Charles Hayward’s backbeats and Mathilde 253? You can listen again to the interview with me originally broadcast on March 27, 2011 on Nova on RTÉ lyric fm. [Listen again…]

April 4, 2011

thanks: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, 2011)

Thanks to Catherine Kirby and everyone at the National Concert Hall for able and professional assistance, to John Godfrey, Juniper Hill and Melanie L. Marshall, the then coordinators of the UCC Music Research Seminar Series, who strongly supported Wadada’s visit, and to Mary Hickson, Chris Gaughan, Peter Crudge, Eoin Winning and everyone at the Cork Opera House. Kudos to Tony O’Connor and Athos Tsiopani for the behind-the-scenes help, and to John Hough for the videography and the technical support. Thanks also to Carmel Daly and Mel Mercier of UCC School of Music; Gary Sheehan of Note Productions; Jeffrey Weeter, Paul O’Donnell and, formerly, Jesse Ronneau of the UCC Concerts Committee; and Andreas W. Ziemons, Niamh Ryan and Louise Walsh at Music Network. Thanks to David Leikam of the Arts Noticed, Linda Plover of Blue Monkey PR, Eoin Brady and Bernard Clarke of Nova, and Sandra Quinn at the Evening Echo for their support.

A big thank to the best sound engineer in the world, Alex Fiennes, for amplifying the Cork event, and making the performance sound its best! and to Melanie for the conversations and unofficial roadie duties. Kudos to Marian Murray for jumping into the deep end, a special note of thanks Paul G. Smyth for stepping-up to support this project, and to Dennis Cassidy, Fergus Cullen and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly who came to the rescue when our drum-hire situation briefly went into tail-spin.

And of course a big, big, big thanks to Charles Hayward, Ian Smith and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith for letting me share in their skill, craft, intelligence, musicality, generosity and sense of play (and their patience with this first-time tour manager): I’ll treasure Charles’ rhythmic travels to the outer reaches of an alternative-universe Caribbean; Ian’s brave counterpoint; and the spiraling, expert stacatto precision of Wadada’s trumpet.

Last but not least, thanks to all who came to listen and witness creative music in real-time!

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music, Note Productions, the National Concert Hall and the Cork Opera House.

March 31, 2011

tonight: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Dublin, 2011)

Tonight (Thursday, March 31, 2011), at 8:30pm: Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) performs with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet), plus Paul G. Smyth (piano), at the Kevin Barry Room (National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland). [Details…]

Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office, tel: +353 (0)1 417 0000; fax: +353 (0)1 475 1507; email: . [Get tickets…].

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from Note Productions and the National Concert Hall.

March 30, 2011

tonight: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork, 2011)

Tonight (Wednesday, March 30, 2011), at 8:00pm: Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn) performs with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) (and amplification by Alex Fi ennes) at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place, Cork, Ireland). [Details…]

Tickets: €11 (€6) from corkoperahouse.ie or +353 (0)21 427 0022 [get tickets…].

Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith will also speak on ‘Ankhrasmation: A Systemic Music Language for Creative Music’ as part of the UCC Music Research Seminar Series. The talk is free, open to the public, and takes place at the UCC Music Building (Sundays Well, Cork) at 2:00 pm on 30 March.

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House.

March 24, 2011November 3, 2021

The Sound Projector: Mathilde 253

Ed Pinsent at The Sound Projector gives his take on Mathilde 253 (SLAMCD 528):

The real strength of the work is when the individual voices begin to shine, as they do on ‘Aachen’ for example—some savourable moments of interlining lines from Coxhill’s liquid fruit-juice sax and Smith’s horn. Park manages some imaginatively dissonant barbedly-wire phrases and false-harmonic scatterings from his detuned axe on ‘Similkameen,’ placing him very much in the Bailey mould, but that’s not a bad thing. Hayward puts in tons of hard work on his drum kit to keep up with the changing dynamics, and executes almost every paradiddle in the drummer’s manual on the long track ‘Kalimantan’ in his efforts to derail the collective train and steer the ship’s company over stony ground. Aye, the ingenuity and invention of these combined performances is impressive…. [Read the rest…]

— Ed Pinsent (The Sound Projector)

Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) available on SLAM Productions. [More info…] [All reviews…] [Get the CD…]

March 22, 2011

performance diary 03-22-11 (Cork, Dublin)

upcoming performances
date	venue	time	details
March 30, 2011	Half Moon Theatre Half Moon Street Emmets Place Cork, Ireland	8:00pm	Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from the UCC School of Music and the Cork Opera House. Tickets: €11 (€6) from the Cork Opera House. [Get tickets…] [Details…] [facebook event…]
March 31, 2011	Kevin Barry Room National Concert Hall Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2, Ireland	8:30pm	Performances by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward (drums, percussion and melodica), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn)), plus Paul G. Smyth (piano). Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from Note Productions and the National Concert Hall. Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office. [Get tickets…] [Details…] [facebook event…]
April 4, 2011	The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland	9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm)	Performance by Catherine Sikora (saxophones), Ian Smith (trumpet and flugelhorn), Han-earl Park (guitar) and Jeffrey Weeter (drums and electronics). Admission: €10/5. [Details…] [facebook event…]

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March 21, 2011

reminder: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, 2011)

Next week (March 30 and March 31, 2011): Performances in Cork and Dublin, Ireland, by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn). [Details…]

Cork, March 30, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (and amplification by Alex Fi ennes) at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €11 (€6) from corkoperahouse.ie or +353 (0)21 427 0022. [Get tickets…]
Dublin, March 31, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, plus Paul G. Smyth, at the Kevin Barry Room (National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office, tel: +353 (0)1 417 0000; fax: +353 (0)1 475 1507; email: . [Get tickets…]

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Details about events/tour…]

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music, Note Productions, the National Concert Hall and the Cork Opera House.

February 25, 2011November 3, 2021

Jazzwise: Mathilde 253

Daniel Spicer gives Mathilde 253 (SLAMCD 528) a thumbs up in the current issue of Jazzwise (issue 150, March 2011):

This new improvising group… draws disparate personalities into one eccentric orbit. Han-Earl Park, a guitarist of Korean descent, residing in Ireland, is as at home in underground Noise as he is dueting with free jazz heroes like Paul Dunmall. Trumpeter Ian Smith is a stalwart of the London improv scene and drummer Charles Hayward is best known for his work with seminal post-Punk experimenters This Heat. On these live recordings they generate a surprising amount of heat. Park uses pedals to smudge and smear chords or rolls out strange robotic grumblings, a technician playing electricity as much as the guitar. Smith has a high, taut attach, like a more tuneful version of Donald Ayler’s pure energy. And Hayward… makes a good fist of playing freely…. Veteran saxophonist Coxhill rounds it out to a quartet for two tunes, making this a very satisfying debut.

— Daniel Spicer (Jazzwise)

Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) available on SLAM Productions. [More info…] [All reviews…] [Get the CD…]

February 24, 2011

tickets available: Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (Cork and Dublin, 2011)

Tickets are now available for the performances in Cork and Dublin, Ireland, by Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) with Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward: drums, percussion and melodica; Han-earl Park: guitar; and Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn). [Details…]

Cork, March 30, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith at the Half Moon Theatre (Cork Opera House, Emmet Place).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €11 (€6) from corkoperahouse.ie or +353 (0)21 427 0022. [Get tickets…]
Dublin, March 31, 2011: Performance by Mathilde 253 with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, plus Paul G. Smyth, at the Kevin Barry Room (National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2).
[performance diary entry] [facebook event page]
Tickets: €12 (€10) from the National Concert Hall Box Office, tel: +353 (0)1 417 0000; fax: +353 (0)1 475 1507; email: . [Get tickets…]

See the performance diary for up-to-date info. [Details about events/tour…]

Presented with funding from the Music Network Performance and Touring Award, and support from UCC School of Music, Note Productions, the National Concert Hall and the Cork Opera House.